Bart: This shop looks like a bit of Paris on Fifth Avenue.
Lola: That's the idea. What it looks like is one's idea of what Paris should look like because Paris isn't this charming. This is like a set; if you had to design a millinery shop in a musical, this is what it would look like. It's lively and jolly.

Bart: How did you get into millinery?
Lola: My sister and I did not go to school in France. We roamed free in our little garden on the Seine. I was a ballet dancer for a while until I realized I had no talent, (very upsetting) so I bowed out as gracefully as I could and I did many different odd things. When I was living in London with my first husband, I was very bored so I signed up for some courses. One was fencing, one was archery, and one was millinery. I was pathetic at fencing because I went back instead of lunging forward. I wasn't strong enough for archery. But I loved the millinery class. When I was forty, I decided "Let's do it." I opened a hat shop and it was immediately a success.